CLINICAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

This therapist provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy, in addition to seminars, workshops, trainings for organizations and professionals, critical incident crisis debriefings, life skills classes, and assessments.  He works with ages 5 and up, but one of this therapist's areas of expertise is as a professional counselor and advocate for adolescent/post-adolescent populations (i.e., 12-26).  This therapist provides substance abuse assessments, mental health assessments, and psychological assessments under the guidance of Dr. Long. This therapist was trained under Gail Ryan, MA of the Kempe Children's Center in order to assist with sexual perpetration prevention among children and adolescents. This therapist is able to work with high level mental health and behavioral problem clientele of all ages, with ease and compassion, especially bipolar disorder, other severe mood disorders with or without psychotic symptoms, anxiety disorders, thought disorders, abuse/neglect, severe PTSD, criminal populations, and personality disorders. This therapist has worked in an inpatient and outpatient setting with youth and adults from the Tribal and Non-tribal Departments of Social/Human Service, Probation, Youth Corrections, and Parole as a clinician, child protection social caseworker, clinical director, and facility director. 

PHILOSOPHY OF TREATMENT:

Emmet follows a cross-cultural eclectic approach when it comes to the psychological treatment of his clientele; thus, people will not be judged because of race, ethnicity, national orientation, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, etc., etc., and that these characteristics of culture will be applied to your treatment to better understand you as the client. Emmet is proficient with Psychodynamic; Gestalt; Client-Centered; Rational-Emotive Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral; Reality; Multimodal; Culturally Competent; Family Systems; and Career Counseling Therapeutic Methods; including Psychodiagnostic assessment.  It is Emmet’s goal to assist those individuals and families needing assistance and services become aware of the abuse, neglect, and dysfunction that have affected their families over the generations, in order to assist them in their process of recovery.  Emmet provides the service and it is the choice(s) of the individual(s) and family, if change and recovery is to occur.

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts: Human Development,
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
March 15, 2002

Master of Arts: Psychological Counseling,
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY
October 18, 2000

Bachelor of Arts: East Asian Studies and Japanese Language
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, May 18, 1998